Mark Bowden

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer and author. He is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland. While at Loyola, he was inspired to embark on a journalistic career by reading Tom Wolfes book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In 2010, in his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the National Book Awards, Wolfe called Bowden one of the two writers to watch (along with Michael Lewis).From 1979 to 2003, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Over the years, he has written for The New Yorker, Mens Journal, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone. Some of his awards are listed below. He has taught journalism and creative writing at Loyola University Maryland, and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at The University of Delaware from 2013-2017.

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